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Re: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still mis

• To: "Jeff Greif" <jgreif@a...>,<xml-dev@l...>,"Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@s...>
• Subject: Re: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still missing Updates
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <kpako@y...>
• Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:31:26 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@s...>
To: "Dare Obasanjo" <kpako@y...>; "Jeff Greif"
<jgreif@a...>; <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 8:57 AM
Subject: Re:  W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still
missing Updates


> >For those of us that were not able to attend XML 2001, is there any
material
> >related to your presentation online such as PDFs, Powerpoint slides or
similar
> >material? I am primarily curious as to whether this update proposal is
similar
> >to the grammar on the Microsoftr XML demo site at
> >http://131.107.228.20/grammar.html or more like the proposal from the UW
> >database group at
> >http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zives/research/updatingXML.pdf or
something
> >completely different.
>
> I can send a PowerPoint and some sample queries. I hope to start work with
> other companies in January to produce an updated proposal. The Microsoft
> implementaton and ours are *very* similar, which is not surprising, since
> we worked with Microsoft, IBM, and Crossgain on the original proposal from
> which our implementations are derived. I think that we can iron out the
> differences and create one joint proposal.
>

I would greatly appreciate the Powerpoint and some sample queries. Perhaps
putting it online would be a better choice than sending it to me directly so
others can find it as well.

> I would say that keeping pressure on the W3C to have updates in XQuery is
> the right way to go. I think that the W3C is likely to be responsive, and
> there are certainly vendors on the WG that want to make this happen. Send
> feedback to the following mailing list:
>
> www-xml-query-comments@w...
>
> Remember that nobody is obligated to respond to anything on xml-dev, so our
> comments list is the right place to post if you want to put pressure on us.
>

Ok, I will. However I hope someone actually reads them, from what I've seen
from the most recent list archives


http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-query-comments/2001Dec/thread.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-query-comments/2001Nov/thread.html

most of the traffic is spam thus I wonder exactly how many WG members actually
bother to check the messages on the list.

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